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My New Twitter Flock

Suddenly, the tweets pour in, and they are demanding

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Julia Angwin

Updated March 14, 2009 11:59 p.m. ET

After I wrote about Twitter last week, I went almost overnight from feeling like no one was listening to having 1,683 followers.

My large flock of followers, or people who signed up to receive my Twitter messages, showed me that Twitter wasn't just people shouting into a virtual abyss. Actual conversations were going on. Members of my newfound audience were soon sending me messages, or tweets, constantly, letting me know they...